First emerging in Japan in the Asuka period of about 538 ... Once reserved for screens or inlaid panels in handmade furniture, kumiko, with its thin slats precisely cut to interlock in repeating ...

People pay tens of thousands of dollars for furniture hand-made by artisans in Japan’s Kansai region, who use rare local wood and ancient carving tools. Carville: Trump collapse happened quicker ...

It’s easy to see how one gets sucked into the swirls of suminagashi, the ancient Japanese marbling technique ... calmer printing process.” Wooden furniture by Lukas Dahlén Creating ...

Hori had to coax reluctant Japanese craftspeople to come and put it together so the ancient wood pieces didn’t warp in SoCal’s dry summer heat. “When you’ve spent two years lovingly ...

It also represents a growing local interest in shou sugi ban, a wood-scorching technique that has been used in Japan since at least the 1700s. The Musiches were first exposed to shou sugi ban in ...

The wood was processed using a centuries-old Japanese woodworking technique called “sashimono,” which uses intricate joints instead of screws, nails or glue to assemble furniture and wooden ...